Alexandru Movilă (1601 – 1620) was Prince of Moldavia from 1615 to 1616.
Life
The second son of
Ieremia Movilă
Ieremia Movilă ( ; c. 1555 – 10 July 1606) was a Voivode (Prince) of Moldavia between August 1595 and May 1600, and again between September 1600 and July 10, 1606. At the time, Moldavia was a vassal province of the Polish-Lituania CommonWealth ...
and his wife
Erszébet Csomortany de Losoncz, he is taken to the throne by his mother after the death of his elder brother
Constantin Movilă
Constantin Movilă (1594 – July 1612) was the Prince of Moldavia from 1607 to 1611. The son of Prince Ieremia Movilă and driven by his mother, the ambitious Erszébet Csomortany de Losoncz, he twice seized the Moldovan throne at the expense o ...
.
Supported by Poland he succeeded to establish himself as prince of Moldova on November 22, 1615 in the place of
Ștefan II Tomșa. His troops were however defeated by the Turks and he was taken prisoner on August 2, 1616 with his younger brother Bogdan. They are sent to Constantinople where they convert to Islam and disappear from history. Their mother who took part in the campaign at the head of the army, is captured at the same time as them. Attributed as a concubine to an Ağa she is locked in a
harem
A harem is a domestic space that is reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family. A harem may house a man's wife or wives, their pre-pubescent male children, unmarried daughters, female domestic Domestic worker, servants, and other un ...
, where she dies around 1620.
Sources
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Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol
Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol (; March 23, 1847 – February 27, 1920) was a Romanian historian, philosopher, professor, economist, sociologist, and author. Among his many major accomplishments, he is credited with authoring the first major synthes ...
''Histoire des Roumains de la Dacie trajane : Depuis les origines jusqu'à l'union des principautés''. E Leroux Paris (1896)
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Nicolae Iorga
Nicolae Iorga (17 January 1871 – 27 November 1940) was a historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, Albanologist, poet and playwright. Co-founder (in 1910) of the Democratic Nationalist Party (PND), he served as a member of Parliament ...
''Histoire des Roumains et de la romanité orientale''. (1920)
* Constantin C. Giurescu & Dinu C. Giurescu, ''Istoria Românilor'' Volume III (depuis 1606), Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, Bucarest, 1977.
* Jean Nouzille ''La Moldavie, Histoire tragique d'une région européenne'', Ed. Bieler, .
* Gilles Veinstein, ''Les Ottomans et la mort'' (1996) .
* Joëlle Dalegre ''Grecs et Ottomans 1453-1923. De la chute de Constantinople à la fin de l’Empire Ottoman'', L’Harmattan Paris (2002) .
Monarchs of Moldavia
1601 births
1620 deaths
17th-century Moldavian people
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